ELEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES; At the second session, begun and held at the City of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine. CHAPTER XVIII. AN ACT to authorise the transportation of certain documents free of postage. E 1 B it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby respectively authorised to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate, and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post-office within the United States, and territories thereof, to which they may direct; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW GREGG, President of the Senate, pro tempore. December 9, 1809. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Governor to tion. and CHAPTER XIX. AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled " An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes." BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the governor of the Indiana territory, for the apportion the time being, be, and he is hereby authorised Represent to and empowered to apportion the representaissue his writ tives among the several counties in said terfor the elec- ritory, as he shall think proper, having regard to the numbers limited in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and to issue his writ for the election of such representatives agreeably to the ap portionment which he may make, at such time as he shall deem most convenient for the citizens of the several counties in said territory. Afterwards to be appor tioned by the general assembly. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the legislature of said territory shall be convened, the number of representatives in each county thereof shall be regu lated by the general assembly. issue a pro delegation to Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall occur in the legisla- Governor to tive council, by death, resignation or re- clamation for moval from office, or when from either of supplying vasaid causes there shall be no delegate from cancy in the said territory to the Congress of the United Congress. States, the governor shall in either case be authorised to issue his proclamation, directing an election to be held to supply such vacancy according to law. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. December 15, 1809. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XX. AN ACT extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of secretary of war be authorised to issue mi- war may islitary land warrants to such persons as have sue certain or shall, before the first day of March, one warrants. military land thousand eight hundred and thirteen, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall, and may be located in the names of |